Everyone can build with AI now. Almost nobody can see what’s coming

e27 - Oct 5, 2026

This week, two numbers came out of the same region within days of each other, and almost nobody put them side by side. On September 3, Singapore’s central bank committed SG$220 million over three years to fintech and AI infrastructure under a fourth-generation innovation scheme. Around the same time, a Tracxn landscape report showed Southeast […] The post Everyone can build with AI now. Almost nobody can see what’s coming appeared first on e27.

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